Image: Culzean platform/Heerema Fabrication Group Maersk Oil North Sea UK has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) a second contract for structures on its ultra-high-pressure, high-temperature (uHPHT) Culzean development in the North Sea…
Arup, a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm has announced the completion of the installation of the Malampaya depletion compression platform (DCP), a new offshore natural gas platform installed in the West Philippine Sea off the coast of Palawan…
Meg Chesshyre speaks with HSM Offshore business development manager Jaco Fleumer about the firm’s current work program and future prospects. A18 Topside for Petrogas Transportation at HSM Yard…
Collaboration on- and offshore the Netherlands has resulted in a new concept in platform operations and maintenance. Elaine Maslin reports. Wagenborg’s Kroonborg. Photo from Wagenborg. Across the North Sea…
Assumptions around tidal arrays need to be rethought, according to Professor Stephen Salter. Emma Gordon reports. Image from iStock. The renewables industry needs to contest the…
Hurricane Energy has proven commercial oil can flow from its fractured basement oil reservoirs West of Shetland – it’s next job is finding an economical solution to get it to market. Elaine Maslin reports. Artist's…
The Gemini wind park in the Dutch sector of the North Sea has broken financing and renewables project size records. Elaine Maslin takes a look. An artists’ illustration of the Gemini wind park offshore Netherlands…
Van Oord has been taking its engineering expertise in the dredging sector and applying it to the oil and gas business – with much success. Elaine Maslin reports on a first in deepwater and a new market. Van Oord’s new rock installation vessel…
There is a big risk circling mature production installations where hardware that was once state of the art now poses a problem for managers on late-life assets. That risk is obsolescence. John Bradbury reports. BP’s Shah Deniz facility…
Audrey Leon spoke with Infield Systems’ analysts James Hall and Wei Liu to get the bigger picture. According to Infield Systems, the offshore pipeline installation market over the next 12 months will be challenging. Infield has revised…
Introducing a new FPSO into a brownfield while overhauling the subsea infrastructure led to a complex multi-year SIMOPS campaign for Technip. Elaine Maslin reports. A GIS image (above) shows the complexity of the SIMOPS at Quad 204…
An approach to modeling and simulation combining subsea electrical and fluid systems can facilitate a better understanding of the interaction of long-distance tiebacks supplied by step-outs. ABS’ Milton Korn explains. Subsea pipeline…
LQT Industries, a full-service provider of accommodation facilities, design-build construction services, and support services to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a contract for the construction of an E-House, a temporary living quarters building…
Houston-based McDermott received its largest single award in the history of its Middle East operations today (27 August) by Saudi Aramco for brownfield work off Saudi Arabia. Signing the LTA. Image from McDermott…
On 21 August the Polarled gas pipeline crossed 66° and 33 minutes north of the equator becoming the first pipeline to take the Norwegian gas infrastructure across the Arctic Circle. This will open a new gas highway from the Norwegian Sea to Europe…